Новости за 20.08.2024

Maria Branyas, an American-born Spaniard considered the world’s oldest person at 117 years old, has died, her family says. In a post on Branyas’ X account, her family wrote that "she has gone the way she wanted: in her sleep, at peace, and without pain.” The Gerontology Research Group validates details of people thought to be 110 or older. The group listed Branyas as the oldest known person in the world. Branyas was born in San Francisco in 1907. At the time of her death she was living in a nursing home in the town of Olot in northeast Spain.

Former President Barack Obama and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will speak on the second day of the Democratic National Convention. Obama and Emhoff on Tuesday will turn the party’s attention toward Vice President Kamala Harris and her faceoff against Republican Donald Trump. The pivot toward the campaign’s final 76 days follows an opening night that was designed to give a graceful exit to the incumbent president, who was greeted with a hero’s welcome for stepping aside for Harris. Harris will travel... Читать дальше...

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ people and their supporters have rallied in Nepal’s capital during the annual Pride parade, the first one since gay couples were able to register same-sex marriages officially in the Himalayan nation. The annual event brings together the sexual minority community and their supporters in Kathmandu during the festival. Tuesday’s rally was participated by a government minister, diplomats and officials, which began at the city's tourist hub and went around its main streets. After years of struggle... Читать дальше...

The old-Hollywood vibe is palpable at this hillside home in Los Angeles, available to lease for $18,500 a month.

A beloved, historic wilderness area has gone up in flames.

The number of Bay Area homes sitting on the market for more than 30 days is growing.

More and more restaurants are flocking to this enclave for the rich and famous.

DUBLIN (AP) — DUBLIN (AP) — Medtronic PLC (MDT) on Tuesday reported fiscal first-quarter net income of $1.04 billion.

The Israeli military says it has recovered the bodies of six hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack that started the war in Gaza. The operation came as U.S. and Arab mediators try to advance an agreement to halt the fighting and release scores of other militant-held captives. An Israeli airstrike on Tuesday meanwhile killed at least 10 people at a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, in what the military said was a precise strike on a Hamas command center. Another strike killed a mother and her five children in central Gaza. Читать дальше...

SHANGHAI (AP) — SHANGHAI (AP) — H World Group Limited (HTHT) on Tuesday reported net income of $147 million in its second quarter.

Police officials in Kenya say a suspect who confessed to killing 42 women and was being detained over the discovery of dismembered bodies in Kenya’s capital has escaped from police custody. Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33, was being detained at a police station after the court allowed detectives seven more days to investigate his alleged crimes before charging him. Mohamed Amin, the head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, told the AP it was “unfortunate” that Khalusha had escaped along with... Читать дальше...

Pakistan's military says security forces have killed three insurgents who were involved in the recent killing of a senior government administrator in the country's restive southwest. Tuesday's raid was conducted in Mastung, a district in Baluchistan province where members of the Baluch Liberation Army group ambushed a vehicle carrying regional Deputy Commissioner Zakir Baloch and killed him last week. The military said the slain men were members of the Baluch Liberation Army, which claimed responsibility... Читать дальше...

Florida has long held the crown as the top state to head to when you retire, but Alisa Newman is doing the exact opposite.

Tech tycoon Mike Lynch, one of six people missing from a sunken yacht off Sicily, had been trying to move past a Silicon Valley debacle that had tarnished his legacy as an icon of British ingenuity. The 59-year-old Lynch struck gold when he sold Autonomy, a software maker that he founded in 1996, to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion. But the deal quickly turned into an albatross for him after he was accused of cooking the books to make the sale. The fraud allegations resulted in a criminal trial the culminated in Lynch's acquittal in June... Читать дальше...

Approvals for new coal-fired power plants have dropped sharply in China after a flurry of permits in the previous two years raised concern about the government’s commitment to limiting climate change. An analysis released Tuesday by Greenpeace East Asia and the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies found that 14 new plants were approved in the first half of this year with a total capacity of 10.3 gigawatts, down 80% from the same period last year. China leads the world in solar and wind power... Читать дальше...

BEIJING (AP) — BEIJING (AP) — Yirendai Ltd. (YRD) on Tuesday reported earnings of $56.4 million in its second quarter.

A German court has rejected an appeal by a 99-year-old woman who was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. The Federal Court of Justice on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Irmgard Furchner, who was given a two-year suspended sentence in December 2022 by a state court in northern Germany. She was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp near Danzig, now the Polish city of Gdansk, function. Читать дальше...

Global stocks are mostly rising after Wall Street pushed closer to record highs following its roller coaster of a summer. The Nikkei 225 index was up 1.8%. U.S. futures were slightly higher while oil prices fell. The S&P 500 rose 1% Monday for its eighth-straight gain, its longest winning streak since November. It's back within 1% of its record set last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite added 1.4%. Treasury yields held steady ahead of a highly anticipated... Читать дальше...

Japan’s ruling party says it will hold a vote on Sept. 27 to choose its new leader after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s surprise announcement that he will be stepping down. The internal election must be held by the end of September, which marks the end of Kishida’s three-year term and will only include lawmakers belonging to the party and its 1.1 million dues-paying members. The winner will be the head of the Liberal Democratic Party and the country’s prime minister as the party and its smaller coalition... Читать дальше...

The leaders of India and Malaysia say they will seek to expand economic ties and strengthen cooperation on defense and security. This came during Malaysian Prime Minster Anwar Ibrahim’s visit to India, his first since he took office in 2022, where he met with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. Recently, Anwar has sought to move closer to China, with whom New Delhi has been locked in a long-running border dispute. A key part of Modi’s foreign policy has been to deepen trade and ties with other... Читать дальше...

The Nation's Weather for Tuesday, August 20, 2024

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NATIONAL SUMMARY

Showers will linger across portions of New England today,

extending the risk of flooding. An area of high pressure

over the Great Lakes will provide a dome of dry conditions

from the Great Lakes to the Ohio Valley and the rest of the

Northeast. Low humidity will accompany the sunshine in these

areas. Farther south, a few thunderstorms will rumble across

portions... Читать дальше...

A German court rejects a former Nazi concentration camp secretary's appeal against her conviction as accessory to murder.

"Gatsby’s Rival" by Richard Guimond is an epic adventure story that rivets the reader from page one, with a high-stakes plot and an ensemble cast of characters as iconic as the great Gatsby himself.

1. Chicago is hosting this year's Democratic National Convention. Before this year, when did the city most recently host the event?

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge differences holding up a cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza. He called on Hamas to do the same. Blinken on Tuesday was on his ninth urgent mission to the Middle East since the war in Gaza began more than 10 months ago. He did not say whether the “bridging proposal” addressed concerns cited by Hamas. Even if the militant group accepts the proposal, negotiators will spend the coming days working on “clear... Читать дальше...